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"Epidemic hysteria or mass hysteria refers to apparently contagious dissociative phenomena that take place in large groups of people or institutions under conditions of anxiety." (Source: Companion to Psychiatric Studies by Eve Johnstone & David G. Cunningham Owens & Stephen Lawrie & Andrew McIntosh & Michael D. Sharpe)

ALIΞNATI✺N is a contemplation on how digital technology is impacting us, how we articulate ourselves, and how we interact and communicate with each other.

al·ien·a·tion /ˌālēəˈnāSH(ə)n/

noun the state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved.

⸰ loss or lack of sympathy; estrangement. "public alienation from bureaucracy"

⸰ (in Marxist theory) a condition of workers in a capitalist economy, resulting from a lack of identity with the products of their labor and a sense of being controlled or exploited.